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Originally Posted by nabsltd
- Download book from Amazon in some way (Kindle for PC, Download and Transfer via USB, etc.)
- Import downloaded file into Calibre
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Originally Posted by DNSB
You did not include
2.a Install KFX Input plugin in your list.
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Originally Posted by nabsltd
Because it's not required to remove DRM.
All files not natively supported by Calibre require a file input plugin, and you must install it to allow Calibre to import them, and is explained in Calibre's documentation.
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If you use a current Kindle4PC or Kindle4Mac to download your books which is required for books published after 2023-Jan-02, they will be downloaded in KFX format where older K4PC/Mac versions would have downloaded azw3/KF8 or Mobi. Without the KFX Input plugin, those files will be useless collections of electrons.
While there are file input plugins for Microsoft's .DOC format and Kobo Kepub ePub format variant, since you only mentioned Amazon in your original post and calibre out of the box supports KF8/azw3 and mobi, KFX is the only format that most people are going to run into following your work flow. To me, it made sense to include it in the install procedure.
Not even sure if I would include the Kepub plugin as an input plugin since basically all it does is to remove the extra spans which are do nothings for anyone not using the Kobo Webkit based renderer and the DRM scheme used by Kobo is not supported within the DeDRM plugin though the .zip file download does include the Obok plugin for Kobo ebooks.